READ: Donald Trump Tweets ‘This Was a Meeting to Get Information on an Opponent’

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 05: U.S. President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. walk out onto the North Portico of the White House while departing on a trip to Wyoming to attend a Make America Great rally, on July 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

An early-morning tweet from President Donald Trump on Sunday is contradicting a statement he dictated on behalf of his son, Donald Trump Jr., last year regarding the infamous Trump Tower meeting between high-ranking members of the Trump campaign and Russian government liaisons.

A statement dictated by the President but released in Donald Trump Jr.’s name insisted that the topic discussed between Don Jr., Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Trump campaign advisor Jared Kushner and others was primarily Russian adoption.

Trump’s tweet this morning directly contradicts that story.

Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics – and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!

The president’s tweet is the most forthright statement yet on the motivations of the meeting, which is being scrutinized by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team as evidence of possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

President Trump today confessed that his son, son-in-law, and campaign chair met in June 2016 with Russian agents in hope of obtaining Russian intelligence to sway the 2016 election. Trump – who denies advance knowledge of the meeting – defends it as "totally legal."

Trump fails to understand that the very meeting he is acknowledging is collusion — or conspiracy, if you will — to break campaign-finance laws. Insisting that it is legal to get dirt from a foreign national is politically and morally offensive https://t.co/9bEWFutU8M

The “totally legal” aspect of the tweet falls in lockstep with the latest spin in an ever-changing narrative put forth by the Trump administration.

While “no collusion” has been repeated incessantly by Trump officials and the president himself, it’s only recently that the president’s legal team has begun expressing skepticism as to whether or not collusion is, in fact, a crime.

The president first made the claim last year in an interview with the New York Times, saying, “there is no collusion, and even if there was, it’s not a crime.”

The president’s head lawyer and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani posed the argument recently on CNN’s “New Day”:

they’re not going to be colluding with Russia, which I don’t even know if that’s a crime, colluding about Russians. You start analyzing the crime — the hacking is the crime…The President didn’t hack.

The president echoed the sentiments in a tweet soon after:

Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn’t matter because there was No Collusion (except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats)!

While the word “collusion” is not specifically used in federal campaign finance laws, Title 52, Section 30121 states in part:

It shall be unlawful for—
(1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make—
(A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election

The Trump campaign received help from the Russian GRU to win the election. It had a monetary value so it’s a campaign contribution and the GRU is a foreign entity. Thus it’s an illegal campaign contribution. Mr. Trump you are guilty of collusion @realDonaldTrump

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As the president increases efforts to discredit Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation and as more revelations unfold, it’s likely the tempestuous narratives will continue to shift. Eventually, enough spinning is bound to make anyone dizzy.